Professor Peter Guth, Oceanography Department
Justin G. Jacks, Honors Oceanography Graduate, Class 2009
Two papers are currently (March 2011) in press about this work:
- Guth, P., and Jacks, J., 2011, Using KML to disseminate military geography: in International Handbook Military Geography, Proceedings 8th International Conference on Military Geosciences, Vienna Austria, June 2009, Redaktion Truppendienst, p.220-232.
- Guth, P.L., 2011 (opens a web page with supplemental KML data), Military Applied Geomorphological Mapping: Normandy Case Study: in Smith, M., Paron, P., and Griffiths, J.S,. eds., Geomorphological Mapping: methods and applications, Developments in Earth Surface Processes, vol.15, ELSEVIER.
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Figure 1. Flowchart displaying
process undertaken in the GIS, along with
a registered daily situation map from 17
June 1944 found on the Library of
Congress website displayed in Google Earth.
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Version 3 KMZ Files--open in Google Earth or similar viewer
Table 1. Primary layers
| Layer with Link to download in Google Earth | Link to paste into Google Maps | Notes. |
| Daily situation maps (60 MB) | Too large to display in Google Maps | |
| Daily front lines | http://www.usna.edu/Users/oceano/pguth/website/kml/Daily_Front_lines.kmz | |
| Front lines, key dates | http://www.usna.edu/Users/oceano/pguth/website/kml/Front_lines_key_dates.kmz | |
| Daily division locations | http://www.usna.edu/Users/oceano/pguth/website/kml/Daily_Division_Locations.kmz | |
| First Infantry Division animation | http://www.usna.edu/Users/oceano/pguth/website/kml/First_inf_division.kmz | |
| Mulberries and German field artillery | http://www.usna.edu/Users/oceano/pguth/website/kml/Artillery_firing_on_mulberries.kmz | From each Mulberry location, this shows ranges of three common German artillery pieces. Artillery within the circle could strike the mulberries. |
| German defensive batteriy ranges | http://www.usna.edu/Users/oceano/pguth/website/kml/GermanArtilleryRanges.kmz | Anything inside the circles could be targeted by the coast artillery batteries. |
| German coastal battery locations | http://www.usna.edu/Users/oceano/pguth/website/kml/German_Coastal_Batteries.kmz | |
| Allied airfields | http://www.usna.edu/Users/oceano/pguth/website/kml/Allied_Airfields.kmz | |
| Normandy sl0pe map (1 MB) | http://www.usna.edu/Users/oceano/pguth/website/kml/NORMANDY_Slope_Map.kmz |
Table II. Incomplete prototype layers showing what can be added. These show the use of icons, and including text and graphics in the popup when selecting an icon.
| Download in Google Earth | Paste into Google Maps | Source |
| Army historical photos (2 MB) | http://www.usna.edu/Users/oceano/pguth/website/kml/Army_historical_photos.kmz | |
| Army infantry school papers | http://www.usna.edu/Users/oceano/pguth/website/kml/Infantry_school_papers.kmz | Infantry school monographs |
| Coast Guard photos | http://www.usna.edu/Users/oceano/pguth/website/kml/US_Coast_Guard_Photos.kmz | |
| Navy art work | http://www.usna.edu/Users/oceano/pguth/website/kml/US_Navy_artwork.kmz |
last revision 3/28/2011